I have been porting u-boot to different processors for 2 years and just started looking at linuxbios. IMHO, u-boot is ok if you are bringing up hardware for the first time and you need an intermediate stage to peek and poke the hardware before trying to bring up Linux. With u-boot you get to a command prompt before booting Linux so you can examine things and complete the conguration code before bypassing the command prompt and going directly to Linux. If your hardware is stable and you don't need the command prompt then linuxbios is probably the best way to go...
--- ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Eliasson wrote:
I read on the linuxbios webpage about PPC-support.. Aren t
you guys
aware of the U-boot project?
Sure.
They've been running the GNU Linux kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4 21
in firmware
for a while now.. Maybe I m just missing something, but I
thought some
merging of efforts might be in place..
I tried to have a conversation with somebody from u-boot about some sort of merge, but it never got beyond the "why u-boot is better than linuxbios" stage, so I dropped it.
ron
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